Not only had a radio flyer wagon, but what I believe was an American
Flyer sled - don't know how it got by ACG - but it was around 1948.
This was in Connecticut. Nice, wood (maple?) slats with steel runners,
room enough for about 3-4 kids/people.
Rance Velapoldi (Tranby, Norway)
On 1/17/2012 15:13, shabbona_rr wrote:
True, but you had to go to those stores to find it. Today, it is more
the norm than not. That's why the Pawnbrokers and Pickers pay a
premium for old toys.
Even low-cost Marx trains were better quality than today's offerings
(toys,that is). Anybody besides me have a Radio Flyer wagon in 1950?
Bob Nicholson ______________________________________
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
"richgajnak" <rustytraque@...> wrote:
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> --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>,
"shabbona_rr" <user141771@> wrote:
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> > Look at how well toys and AF, etc., from the forties and fifties
has held up compared to the cheap plastic disposable junk sold at
Toys"R" us, for instance.
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> > In fact, AF was so well designed it blurred the line between scale
models and toy trains in its day.
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> > Bob Nicholson __________________________________________
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> There was a lot of cheap plastic, disposable stuff sold at F. W.
Woolworth's and S. S. Kresge's back in the 50's and 60's that did't
survive the decades, either... ;-)
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> Rich G(ajnak)
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